Srikanth Narayan is the founder and CEO of Cache, a San Francisco brokerage built for people who are dangerously over-invested in a single stock. A former engineer at Uber and Alphabet's Waymo, he discovered exchange funds while trying to untangle his own concentrated Uber equity, then spent a year in stealth turning a tool reserved for $10M-plus private bank clients into a product with a $100,000 minimum. Since launching in March 2024, Cache has crossed $600M+ in assets and raised a $12.5M Series A led by First Round Capital.
Alex Nichols is a General Partner at CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund. He invests in companies reinventing large markets through novel economic or distribution models, then compounding through scale - a thesis carved out across deals like Stripe, Duolingo, Whatnot, Rippling, UiPath, Waymo, Odoo and Zach Dell's Base Power. Promoted to GP in January 2026 alongside Jill Chase, the first time CapitalG named two GPs at once since the firm's 2013 founding.
Gene Frantz is a General Partner at CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth equity fund, where he has been a founding partner since 2013. A specialist in cybersecurity and enterprise technology, he backed CrowdStrike, Zscaler, and Freshworks before their IPOs - investments that collectively reached more than $125 billion in value. Before CapitalG, he spent 13 years at TPG Capital leading technology and telecom investments, and previously worked at Oracle's venture capital group and Morgan Stanley.
Jesse Wedler is a General Partner at CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth equity fund, where he has worked since its founding in 2013 - starting as an MBA intern and rising to lead investments in companies like Airbnb, Duolingo, Gusto, UiPath, and ID.me. Raised in Petaluma, California and educated at UC Berkeley and Stanford GSB, Wedler brings a deeply hands-on, thesis-driven approach to backing transformative B2B fintech, enterprise software, and identity companies at the growth stage. Known for rolling up his sleeves alongside founders and co-founding a chemistry camp for visually impaired youth with his brother, he blends long-term conviction with genuine operational partnership.
Jill Chase is a General Partner at CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth-stage venture capital fund, where she leads investments in AI/ML, data infrastructure, and enterprise technology. A former startup founder (Y Combinator S17) and private-equity-backed CEO turned investor, she joined CapitalG in 2020 with a deliberate AI-first thesis - years before the sector exploded - and has since backed category-defining companies including Rippling, Physical Intelligence, LangChain, Baseten, and Canva. In January 2026, CapitalG promoted her to General Partner, the first such promotion in the firm's history.
Jeff Markowitz is an Advisory Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where he serves as a go-to resource for the firm and its portfolio companies on executive hiring. Before returning to Greylock in an advisory capacity, he spent over six years at Alphabet as Vice President and Talent Advisor directly to CEO Sundar Pichai, helping shape leadership and succession at the board and management team levels of one of the world's largest companies. His career bridges two worlds - the high-stakes art of executive recruiting (with stints at Heidrick & Struggles and a national search firm) and the operational intensity of venture-backed company building.
Eric Emerson Schmidt is a billionaire technologist, former Google CEO, and relentless polymath who quietly shaped the digital age while most of us were still figuring out dial-up. After steering Google from scrappy startup to global colossus (2001-2011), he pivoted to national security advisory, quantum computing ventures, ocean research, and as of March 2025, rocket manufacturing as CEO of Relativity Space. With a net worth around $54.5 billion, five co-authored books on AI, and philanthropic commitments exceeding $1 billion, Schmidt operates at the intersection of geopolitics, frontier science, and Silicon Valley ambition.
D. Scott Phoenix is a deep tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded Vicarious, an artificial general intelligence company that raised $250M from Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and other tech luminaries before being acquired by Alphabet in 2022. Now a partner at Fifty Years, he invests in scientists and engineers solving humanity's biggest problems. A Y Combinator alum who founded his first startup at 16, Phoenix is a leading voice in AI safety advocacy and believes artificial general intelligence will be 'humanity's last invention.'
Laela Sturdy is the Managing Partner and CEO of CapitalG, Alphabet's $7 billion independent growth equity fund. A first-generation American born in Jamaica and raised in South Florida, she played Division I basketball at Harvard, earned an MBA from Stanford, and built a track record at CapitalG where every one of her early investments became a unicorn — including Stripe, Duolingo, UiPath, and Webflow. She became sole leader of CapitalG in March 2023, making her one of a tiny handful of women running an established multibillion-dollar venture firm.